According to the website that is provided to sourcewatch.org, I found their mission statement “The James Madison Center for Free Speech is an internal educational fund of the James Madison Center, Inc., a District of Columbia non-profit corporation”. They are a non-profit corporation which means they don’t earn any profit so they can only get their money mostly from people’s donation and organization/ foundation funding. Their board of directors Betsy DeVos GOP heavyweight and wife of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, and their personal and family foundation ties to the far-right Libertarian and conservative Christian think tanks, astro turf grassroots groups and Super PACs. Also, they are the members of the Dead Billionaires Club, people who
Martin Luther King and Sojourner Truth were both civil rights activists in their respective time periods. Sojourner Truth fought for the rights of women and African-American rights in the 1850’s. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the rights of all African-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman speech has many similarities to King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail including styling, audience, and rhetorical devices.
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They specifically said, “"we are committed to giving all people a voice"; second, that, given this commitment, "we print the opinions of others with whom we do not agree"; third, that to do otherwise would involve the newspaper in the dangerous acts of "silencing" and "self-censorship"; and, fourth, that "what is hate speech to one member of a society is free speech to another."” Fish said that their four claims were wrong. It goes to show that the newspaper editors are not being responsible and have a bad sense judgment. They need to start having self-censorship and need to stop being biased on the articles they choose to put up in their newspapers. It is clear that they are being biased otherwise they would give the KKK, advocates of slavery, and other groups “the voice” as Fish
Roy, Joseph T. "New Black Panther Party." Http://www.splcenter.org/. Southern Poverty Law Center, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013. .
This may be true; however, I seem, too often, to see another side of this organization. In recent months and years, their agendas have been advanced only through the media and political outcries, not through the democratic process as they have stated. Maybe they employ the lesser known, but effective, democrat process.
Discourse communities are groups of people with a unique point of view. There are many discourse communities around your everyday life. These communities are part of the entire human environment. Many discourse communities are distinctly large due to all the societies wanting the same things. My discourse communities are mostly Facebook.
The debate between Just and Unjust Speech highlights the ongoing debate between old and new traditions. These traditions can range from how to interpret laws to family values and the struggle between them is highlighted in Aristophanes Clouds. The battle between old and new is seen in argument between Just and Unjust Speech and the arguments between father Strepsiades and son Pheidippides. The constant battle between old and new is seen in many different areas throughout the Clouds such as justice, piety and issues of law.
For my project III ethnography I am researching and observing the Jackson High School Drama Departments production of Annie: The Musical. The importance of this community is that it makes students involved be on there best behavior in order to participate. They have to stay of of trouble and be able to maintain a GPA that is required to be in the group. This group is also important because it is an expressive outlet that allows the students to be whoever they want to be. The drama department is made up of students from kindergarten to twelfth grade that attend Jackson city schools. Every student on cast and crew each has an important job to to in order to make the play successful. However in order to be successful the members of this group have to communicate to each other in many different ways. Some forms of communication are verbal while others aren't, but both ways are crucial in order to make to production succeed. Also communication doesn't just take place on stage, it takes place backstage and after practice too. Another way the group communicates with each other is using terms that and average person wouldn't understand. Throughout this paper I am also going to explore the idea of Discourse community and relate it to the drama club.
Henry David Thoreau, well known for his work Civil Disobedience, discusses and argues for a sustainable government for the American populace. The motto: “That government is best which governs least” (part 1, paragraph 1) carries on and supports several claims Thoreau makes throughout his essay. His response states: “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect…” (part 1, paragraph 1) which strengthens Thoreau’s point of view about the American government and the type of government he desires. Thoreau also applies figurative language and central ideas to make his points strong, convincing, and engaging toward the reader about a “better government”.
The Free Speech Movement protested the ban of on campus political activities and speeches. Thousands of students became involved in this protest and together they displayed how much power there was in student activism. In the fall of 1964, the Regents of the university enforced a new ban that blocked students from holding political activities at Sproul Plaza on Bancroft and Telegraph. This was unsettling to them because the Bancroft Strip was a key location that students occupied when trying to reach out, raise funds and speak up for what they believed in. Previous policies suggested that student life outside of the university wouldn't be tampered or interfered with, so this was an outrage to the students of UC Berkeley. When the regents took time to revise and tweak the ban, students were still unhappy with the decision, so a sit in at Sproul Hall was organized and it lasted for nearly 10 hours.
In the article “The Concept of Discourse Community” John Swales touches a few very important main ideas about what discourse community really is. I found it to be refreshing that he is able to express his feelings how he does in this article. Swales talks about discourse community and how our world today really isn 't that good at being apart of them. He discusses the six qualities or characteristics of being apart of a discourse community. You have to be active in communicating and wanting to be apart of that community and if you 're not that type of person than maybe it 's not your thing.
Every individual is a component of some type of discourse community. A discourse community is a group of people who work to achieve a set of common goals through a unique form of terms and conditions. Discourse communities are often confused with speech communities. The difference between the two is that “a discourse community recruits its members by persuasion, training or relevant qualification” (Swales 220) rather than gaining members through birth, or accident. Discourse communities have a “reasonable ratio between novices and experts” (Swales 222) and different genres of communication that are used to progress towards the group’s goals. Another characteristic is the use of a unique lexis, or vocabulary, that sets the community apart from
A political science major is the main discourse community I am apart of. It is a community that consists of students studying political science through a four-year bachelor’s program at the University of New Mexico. Almost anyone interested in being a part of this community is capable of joining. This guide goes in depth about what this discourse community is about. Making it easy for anyone that would like to be apart of the community, allowing outsiders to see if it is truly for them. This guide will touch on the origin, goals, values, and the exploration of language usage in the discourse community of political science majors.
Considered to be the most influential, Jakobson and Hymes' theory has always been used as the basis for future theories on the functions of language. Whilst linguists have sought to understand how, as speakers, people are able to produce an infinite number of sentences out of a finite set of rules, philosophers have tried to explain how an infinite number of sentences may reflect a finite set of functions. These theories based on language in use belong to the field of pragmatics and the most relevant one on this issue is the so-called 'Speech Act Theory', a proposal by Austin and Searle. These philosophers argued that, since the number of things people do with words is limited, people should be able to assign different functions to different
“Speech act” is a term coined by Searle, who, being a disciple of Austin, perfected the theory, presented in his book How to do things with words, published in 1962. Speech acts are defined as what we do when we speak with words (Austin, 1962), such as performing a request, ordering or refusing. The concept of speech acts was first proposed by philosophers of language as Austin (1962) and Searle (1969, 1975, 1976), and subsequently, the concept was adapted to studies of sociology, psychology and applied linguistics. Austin notes that some statements are in their own right acts, which he called “performative” statements. By issuing a performative statement the speaker, rather than state or describe something actually performs an act. For example, statements like “I do” in a wedding ceremony said by the couple and “I name this ship Queen Elizabeth” (P. 49), the speaker explicitly performs a speech act. In light of this verbs such as to do and in this case to name, belong to the category of performative verbs as far as Austin is concerned. Austin believes that every speech act has three dimensions: locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary. Locution is where the literal meaning of the statement is taken as the overall meaning of what is being communicated. “I’m thirsty” is a statement that expresses that the speaker is thirsty. The illocution has to do with the value that speaker gives to the locutionary act. I’m thirsty can be expressed and understood as simple the physical state of the speaker but it can also refer to a request being made for something to drink. The speaker has added an illocutionary meaning or illocutionary force to his statement. The perlocutionary aspect deals with the effect the statement has on the listene...